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Bunch of crybaby Democrats. Go change your diapers.

Republicans narrowly passed Donald Trump�s sweeping budget reconciliation
bill through the House Wednesday night, including a last-minute provision
that would not require gun owners to register the purchase of silencers.

Georgia Representative Andrew Clyde had already ensured the elimination of
a $200 transfer tax on gun silencers. But during negotiations Wednesday,
he was able to add another provision altogether removing silencers from
the regulatory purview of the National Firearms Act, which imposes taxes
on the manufacture, distribution, and import of weapons, according to
Politico.

The last-minute addition would strike another $200 tax on the manufacture
of gun silencers. But by removing silencers from the purview of the
National Firearms Act, lawmakers said that the change also had eliminated
the NFA�s registration requirement with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco
Firearms and Explosives.

�The question I have is, this was not in the bill that we were marking up.
So, whose vote was bought with this provision that silencers will no
longer need to be registered with the ATF or subject to background check purchasers?� asked Colorado Representative Joe Neguse on the House floor Wednesday night.

�What member was on the fence about this bill, and then went to Republican leadership and said, �I know you�re eliminating the tax on silencers but
if you can just eliminate all regulation on silencers, I will vote for
this bill?��

Georgia Representative Austin Scott claimed that silencers� exception from
ATF registry did not mean that purchasers would not be subject to
background checks. Scott, who argued in support of the provision, seemed confused about what it was actually about. He said it was about
suppressors, rather than silencers�but that was incorrect.

When a person attempts to buy a firearm, they must complete an ATF form,
and the seller then relays information to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation website. The NICS staff then performs a check to see whether
the buyer has a criminal record or is in any way ineligible to purchase
the firearm.

If the purchaser is not required to fill out a form with the ATF to
purchase a silencer, it�s not clear how a background check would still be completed.

�Quite frankly, what is in the reconciliation bill does more to support assassins than it does American families,� said Massachusetts
Representative Jim McGovern.

There was some laughter in the hall.

�Yeah, well you know what? Talk to law enforcement, talk to people who
have been victims of gun violence,� McGovern continued. �I know you think
it�s funny, but I don�t.�

https://newrepublic.com/post/195617/republicans-pass-tax-bill-democrat-
deaths

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